Re: "cpan force install" can't connect to sourceforge.net

[Amphiaraus]

My laptop has no compiler that would seem to block me from using GitHub Releases. Is there a way I can download Alien::wxWidgets such that in my Perl scripts

use Alien::wxWidgets;

Would work?

[Anonymous Monk]

Yeah, read the README/INSTALL file and follow the instructions

[Amphiaraus]

Apparently a change has been made in the sourceforge.net site, in my latest "cpan force install Alien::wxWidgets" there was no error complaining that sourceforge.net could not be reached. Alien-wxWidgets-0.67.tar.gz downloaded successfully.

I now have an error message saying Alien::wxWidgets cannot be compiled:

Running Build for M/MD/MDOOTSON/Alien- wxWidgets-0.67.tar.gz
Building Alien-wxWidgets
gmake: makefile.gcc: No such file or directory
gmake: *** No rule to make target 'makefile.gcc'. Stop.
Could not find wxWidgets lib directory at inc/My/Build/Win32_MinGW_Bakefile.pm line 68.
MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.67.tar.gz
C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe ./Build -- NOT OK
Stopping: 'install' failed for 'Alien::wxWidgets'.


Internet searches suggest "gmake" is a UNIX-like makefile distributed by the GNU Project. My computer uses Windows, not UNIX. Is there a solution for the "gmake: makefile.gcc" error shown above that does not require your computer to have UNIX?

[marto]

On Windows 7 64 bit, Strawberry Perl v5.24.1 I used cpanm to install this without issue:

cpanm Alien::wxWidgets

The download from SF seemed to take quite a while, after this everything burst into life, on an I5 laptop it took long time to build and test everything, but:

1 distribution installed

[Anonymous Monk]

... in my latest "cpan force install Alien::wxWidgets" ... I now have an error message saying Alien::wxWidgets cannot be compiled:

Force means go ahead and install even if ... testing ... fails

But if there is a problem building/cc++compiling a distribution, then there is no module to be installed , as it hasn't been built/compiled yet, so nothing that can be force installed

If you want to build this module you need to step outside of cpan (  cpan[2]> notest install HTTP::Proxy ) and run these commands yourself

    perl Build.PL
    perl Build
    perl Build test
    perl Build install

Then you'll have an idea of where the problem lies and can go about solving it -- when automatic doesn't work you gotta go step by step

wxWidgets has over 5000 files, and a couple of hundred makefile.gcc files ...

If Alien-wxWidgets/Build.PL can't download the source ...

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Alien-wxWidgets/README.txt

[Amphiaraus]

I have a 32-bit computer and a 32-bit version of Strawberry Perl
I have read that the 64-bit Strawberry Perl includes the "gcc" compiler but the 32-bit Strawberry Perl doesn't include "gcc".
Is there a CPAN Perl Module that could add the "gcc" compiler to my 32-bit Strawberry Perl?

My error message when using cpanm Alien::wxWidgets:

Building Alien-wxWidgets
gmake: makefile.gcc: No such file or directory
gmake: *** No rule to make target 'makefile.gcc'. Stop